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[quote=Anonymous]A vent I guess. Your comment might improve my response. My guideline with the two boys is take what you want but eat what you take. Don't take too much, you can go back. So, on a trip to visit relatives the older one (young teen) doesn't eat half a plate of food (took a lot of new things he didn't like), younger one doesn't eat two bites. I tell the older one he should not have taken a lot of new things without trying them first. Older one criticizes me for not coming down equally on younger one for eating two bites, I say two bites is not nearly as bad as half a plate, but, yes, we should eat what we take.

So, I'm the bad guy to the older one. I'm a dad (DW had to work) and no doubt could have handled it better but not sure how. Teen still annoyed and I'm hoping to salvage the next few days of the trip as we're seeing relatives we don't see but once a year. If I were in DC I'd go right home. Part of it may be teen drama as he is normally passive and easygoing and may just be ramping his acting up to normal. One thing I hate more than disrespect to me is disrespect to a hardworking small business, in this case a family run restaurant, and wasting their food is disrespectful. [/quote]

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